Unbelievable timing! I just wrote to my Facebook-group how I have been working on fumes for the last few days, with very low confidence and motivation on myself and my target. And then you come up with the perfect blog post to help me around this pit! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!

“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill

I’ve often wondered about the applicability of this. Churchill had an endless number of people to fail on his behalf who carried the can when his ideas went wrong.

No matter who you surround yourself with, it’s up to you as a leader to guard against things that will kill enthusiasm.
Lack of communication;
Bureaucracy;
Fear;
Boredom;
Perfectionism.
All of these will kill enthusiasm. As a leader, it lies within your gift to address many of these and to watch for all of them.